Restless legs syndrome/Willis–Ekbom disease diagnostic criteria: updated International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG) consensus criteria – history, rationale, description, and significance

Sleep Medicine - Tập 15 Số 8 - Trang 860-873 - 2014
Richard P. Allen1, Daniel L. Picchietti2, Diego Garcı́a-Borreguero3, William G. Ondo4, Arthur S. Walters5, John W. Winkelman6, Marco Zucconi7, Raffaele Ferri8, Marco Túlio de Mello9,10, Hochang B. Lee11
1Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
2University of Illinois School of Medicine and Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL, USA
3Sleep Research Institute, Madrid, Spain
4University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
5Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
6Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
7Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neuroscience, Scientific Institute and University Ospedale San Raffaele, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
8Sleep Research Centre, Department of Neurology I.C., Oasi Institute (IRCCS), Troina, Italy
9Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany
10Paracelsus-Elena Hospital, Kassel, Germany
11Department of Psychiatry; Yale University School of Medicine; New Haven CT USA

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